Exam 1: Introduction

Development can be defined as the pattern of movement or change that:

Erik Erikson's developmental theory consists of _____ stages that last from the first year of life to:

Jessica,16,is in the process of deciding what she wants to study in college.She wants to be an engineer one day and a painter the next day.Erik Erikson would say Jessica is in the _____ stage of development.

The _____ issue involves the degree to which early traits and characteristics persist through life or alter.

Which of the following is a criticism of standardized tests?

According to Urie Bronfenbrenner's ecological theory,a person's family,peers,school,and neighborhood constitute his/her:

Alex is 8 years old and in the 3rd grade,his main focus is success in school,as he is gradually exposed to more and more information about the world at large.The developmental period Alex is currently in is:

Agatha is 83 years old.According to Baltes and his colleagues,_____ and _____ in her capacities will take center stage.

In predicting an adult woman's behavior,it may be more important to know that she is the mother of a 3-year-old child than to know whether she is 20 or 30 years old.This reflects the concept of:

Identify the correct sequence of the five stages of psychosexual development described in Freud's theory of development.

Most contemporary psychoanalytic theorists believe that Sigmund Freud:

Dr.Perkins predicts that children who spend years playing a musical instrument are smarter than children who do not play music.This testable prediction is known as a(n):

Which theorist proposed that psychosexual development occurred in the following five stages: oral stage,anal stage,phallic stage,latent stage,and genital stage?

Mary is three years-old and in preschool.Identify the development period that Mary is currently in.

The longitudinal method of research consists of studying:

In the nature-nurture issue,nature refers to an organism's _____,nurture to its _____.

Katie-Lou is 88 years old.Katie would most likely be characterized as:

A researcher is interested in the effect of exercise on stamina in elderly patients.The patients are randomly assigned to be in a high-exercise or low-exercise training program for eight weeks.At the end of the program,their stamina is measured by seeing how long they can walk comfortably on a treadmill.In this study,the dependent variable is:

Ramada,69,an avid golfer and fitness enthusiast,recently got a comprehensive health exam done,and her physician remarked that her vital organs were in such good shape that her _____ age was about 10 years less than her chronological age.

Identify the term that refers to the capacity for change.